info2023-09-27T09:44:00-05:00September 27th, 2023|
The Columbus Fire Rescue has announced a program using lifesaving Life Vac devices in the local schools and childcare facilities. Life Vac devices are designed to aide in the removal of foreign substances causing choking to happen in school aged children. The Fire Rescue state this device while effective, should be a last choice option, not replacing the Heimlich or the normal back elbow instructions. Source: KOAM News
info2023-09-27T07:39:09-05:00September 27th, 2023|
Labette Community College is celebrating 100 years with their 100th Birthday Bash celebration. Alums and the community of Parsons were welcome to enjoy free food and fun. Kenneth Ervin, an LCC graduate from 1947, spoke at the college's 100th-anniversary celebration. He shared a story about playing on a team under then-coach Carnie Smith. LCC's President, Mark Watkins, also spoke, emphasizing the significance of the centenary. LCC officially turned 100 on September 12th but has ongoing celebrations planned throughout the school year, including a Kids Fall Fest on October 23rd and an LCC 100-Year history exhibit from March 18th to April 24th. [...]
info2023-09-27T07:36:54-05:00September 27th, 2023|
Funding for upgrades to Chanute’s historic train depot will hinge on an upcoming sales tax referendum. Local voters will decide in the November general election whether to extend a quarter-cent sales tax to fund upgrades for a number of city facilities, including the old Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Train Depot, which houses the Chanute Public Library and the Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum. The building, which was last remodeled in the early 1990s, faces a laundry list of needs, most prominently a new HVAC system priced at $1 million or more. Source: The Iola Register
info2023-09-27T07:35:48-05:00September 27th, 2023|
Various local officials said Monday they need a formal process for making decisions together for things like CiCo Park. During Monday’s intergovernmental luncheon, Manhattan, Riley County, K-State and USD 383 officials discussed potential changes and updates to the fairgrounds and CiCo park, which is owned jointly by USD 383, Riley County and Manhattan. As previously reported, a task force looking at possible relocation or additions for the Riley County Fairgrounds and said it would like to see a venue that could host all kinds of live events. Former county commissioner and fairgrounds task force member Dave Lewis said it is important [...]
info2023-09-27T07:27:50-05:00September 27th, 2023|
The City of Wichita is moving ahead with plans for a program to protect and expand the tree canopy in the community, and a study has identified 17 areas where trees are most needed. An update to a proposed tree policy was presented to City Council members in a workshop meeting Tuesday, and it identifies 17 “heat islands” that have been created by a lack of trees or the loss of trees in neighborhoods. A study was conducted by the NASA Langley Research Team that looked at the relationship between heat, trees and the environment. The city’s arborist, Gary Farris, said [...]
info2023-09-27T09:45:51-05:00September 27th, 2023|
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is warning that interest rates could go up quite a bit further as policymakers face the prospects of elevated inflation and slow growth. Though Federal Reserve officials have indicated that they are near the end of their rate-hiking cycle, the head of the largest U.S. bank by assets said that may not necessarily be the case. In fact, Dimon said in an interview with The Times of India that the Fed's key borrowing rate could rise significantly from its current targeted range of 5.25%-5.5%. He said that when the Fed raised the rate from near-zero to [...]
info2023-09-27T06:56:20-05:00September 26th, 2023|
Ryan Bradbury took a moment Saturday to celebrate an achievement that took years to reach. All of those hours spent in meetings, researching, checking and double-checking had come down to this moment, and he was going to relish it. Standing in the shadow of the newly renovated entrance to Wellsville High School, Bradbury, USD 289 Wellsville School District superintendent, watched as board members cut a blue ribbon, formally opening the doors on an $18.1 million facilities project. “This is an exciting time for our students and our community,” Bradbury said. “Generations of Wellsville families have been educated within these walls. This [...]
info2023-09-27T06:56:31-05:00September 26th, 2023|
People in Salina may notice some unusual sights and sounds coming from the sky near the airport as the U.S. National Aerobatic Championships take place this week. The championships, hosted now for the fourth year at the Salina Regional Airport, features 85 pilots competing in the air sport of aerobatics. This is the fourth time in the past five years, with one year taken off due to COVID, that the U.S. National Aerobatic Championships has taken place at Salina Regional Airport. “There are a lot of things that factor into the right place to have it,” said Shad Coulson, the contest [...]
info2023-09-27T06:56:41-05:00September 26th, 2023|
Here, in this overlooked brick building now serving as a post office, was a general store that was a center of trade for the sleepy town of Tecumseh, Carter Vincent points out. Right next door, an old barn structure is all that remains of the original medical practice, whose physician has long since passed but whose legacy is best seen in the hundreds of babies he helped deliver through the turn of the 19th century. Less than a block away are the sites of several firsts for Shawnee County — a first courthouse, a first church — that served as the [...]
info2023-09-27T06:56:51-05:00September 26th, 2023|
Tensions flared as state and local politicians clashed over property taxes, setting the stage for what is likely to be a heated tax dispute next legislative session. The area of agreement is a mutual desire to cut property taxes. The dispute is over whether the state should put money into a fund intended to help pay for local property tax cuts, or if the state should cut its own property taxes. A movement has been growing to fund the local ad valorem tax reduction fund, or LAVTR, for the first time in 20 years. The LAVTR remains part of state law, [...]
